Tony Johnstone

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For the TV presenter, see Tony Johnston.
Tony Johnstone
— Golfer —
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Personal information
Full name Anthony Alastair Johnstone
Born (1956-05-02) 2 May 1956 (age 68)
Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
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Weight 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st)
Nationality  Zimbabwe
Residence Sunningdale, England
Career
Turned professional 1979
Current tour(s) European Seniors Tour
Former tour(s) European Tour
Sunshine Tour
Professional wins 25
Number of wins by tour
European Tour 6
Sunshine Tour 17 (6th all time)
European Seniors Tour 2
Other 1
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament CUT: 1993
U.S. Open T77: 1993
The Open Championship T34: 1992
PGA Championship CUT: 1992, 1993, 1994
Achievements and awards
Southern Africa Tour
Order of Merit winner		 1988/89, 1993/94

Anthony Alastair Johnstone (born 2 May 1956) is a Zimbabwean professional golfer.

Johnstone was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia and attended Christian Brothers College. He lives in Sunningdale in England. He turned professional in 1979 and has spent his career playing mainly on the Southern African Sunshine Tour and in Europe. He won six times on the European Tour and finished a career best seventh on the European Tour Order of Merit in 1992. His most prestigious win came at the 1992 British PGA Championship. He won seventeen times on the Sunshine Tour, including one co-sanctioned event also included in his European Tour win tally, and he topped that tour's Order of Merit in 1988/89 and 1993/94. He has represented Zimbabwe in international competition many times.

In 2004 Johnstone was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, possibly ending his playing career. With a revolutionary drug treatment, he appears to have put his MS in remission and made his European Seniors Tour debut shortly after turning fifty in 2006.[1] In 2008 he won his first EST event, the Jersey Seniors Classic.[2] He won his second event on the Seniors tour in 2009 at the Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters.

Johnstone is noted for his excellent short game and topped the European Tour's short game statistics in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He has also worked as a golf broadcaster.

Professional wins (25)

European Tour (6)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 4 Nov 1984 Portuguese Open −14 (70-69-67-68=284) 3 strokes England Michael King
2 12 Aug 1990 Murphy's Cup 50 pts (6-23-6-15=50) 2 pts England Malcolm MacKenzie
3 9 Jun 1991 Murphy's Cup (2) 40 pts (10-9-9-12=40) Playoff Republic of Ireland Eamonn Darcy
4 25 May 1992 Volvo PGA Championship −16 (67-70-70-65=272) 2 strokes Scotland Gordon Brand Jnr, Spain José María Olazábal
5 15 Feb 1998 Alfred Dunhill South African PGA Championship
(co-sanctioned with the Sunshine Tour)		 −17 (68-64-67-72=271) 2 strokes South Africa Ernie Els
6 11 Mar 2001 Qatar Masters −14 (68-70-66-70=274) 2 strokes Sweden Robert Karlsson

Sunshine Tour (17)

Other wins

European Seniors Tour (2)

Results in major championships

Tournament 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Masters Tournament DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
U.S. Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T77 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship CUT CUT CUT T39 CUT DNP CUT T52 DNP T73 T34 CUT CUT CUT CUT DNP CUT DNP CUT
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT CUT CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Yellow background for top-10.

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

References

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External links

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